Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today

March 2011

March 14, 2011

Dr. David Clark, DC a leading vertigo expert in Dallas, TX, shares the success of Ron, who suffered vertigo and dizziness for months, but enjoyed rapid relief in only 5 days with Clark Brain-Based Rehab®.

Rapid Vertigo Relief..."Almost Normal" in Only 5 Days

A quick one today....Ron had been suffering with vertigo for more than 3 months. He felt

dizzy when driving (dangerous!)

dizzy when he walked into large areas (like Walmart--this is a kind of height vertigo, by the way)

unstable when he walked, sometimes veering from side to side

But not anymore....

Ron got rapid vertigo relief in only 5 days using Clark Brain-Based Rehab®.

THE PLACE FOR ANSWERS™Dr. David ClarkFunctional NeurologistDiplomate College of Clinical NutritionFunctional EndocrinologistBoard Certified Chiropractic NeurologistVestibular Rehab Specialist214-341-3737

March 11, 2011

Dr. David Clark, DC blows off some steam about how some people don't understand the issue of gluten and the autistic spectrum.

Some Parents Don't Get It--Gluten and the Autistic Spectrum

Some parents of kids on the autistic spectrum just don’t get it. They just don’t get that gluten is literally poison for their child.

Now, the reason I’m telling you this, just a few moments ago I got through a meeting with a family of a child named Jack.

I haven’t even told you Jack’s story, but let me just put it this way: When I first saw Jack, the week before he came here, about a year ago, he tried to like kill another kid. He literally had a temper tantrum and physically went after this kid. I’ve got video of him destroying his house because he can’t transition out of an activity because he’s stimming on TV and he’s asked to stop watching TV and come to dinner.

Before I started working with him...

not mainstreamed in any classes.

He has no friends. He’s a hermit.

He lives inside the house.

He can’t take a shower by himself.

He doesn’t know how to ride a bike.

And over the course of a year of following our program, of making all the necessary changes that I asked...

He is now a tae kwon do champion.

He’s going to be competing in an adult tae kwon do tournament.

He has sleepovers.

He has friends.

He’s mainstreamed in all classes.

He can ride a bike.

He actually has gone around the neighborhood looking for chores so that he can earn some money.

Over the last year, Jack has blossomed.

That’s the back story. Now, here’s what I mean when I say some parent's don’t get it.

So I’m talking to Jack’s mom and his stepdad before they leave our appointent, and Mom says,

“Hey, remember to tell Dr. Clark that your dad [separated] let you have a bagel.” (!!!!!!)

Of course, I basically shouted "a bagel, he can’t do that." I mean, the kid’s totally gluten-intolerant. He’s got the genes for it. Gluten is out--forever.

That’s one of the things that we’ve been working with him over the last year is following a totally gluten-free diet----

...the payoff has been amazing.

But---- even though this wilting little flower of a child has now blossomed into this towering, beautiful kid--it’s as if the parent's forgot exactly how they got there.

And so I said, "You can’t do a bagel. That’s poison for you, Jack. You can’t do that."

And then his stepdad said, “Yeah, but sometimes – but he has pizza every month at school, too,”

What?!!!!

Stepdad: “Well, you know, well, he has pizza and we give him the little digesting enzymes you give us.”

Me: "Yeah, but that’s not a hall pass."

Stepdad: “Well, you know, if he used to be eating four grilled cheese sandwiches and two peanut butter sandwiches, at least he’s eating less.”

Me: "No, I’m never gonna tell you that’s okay. I’m never gonna tell you it’s okay for this kid to have any gluten because you know it’s poisonous for him. You know what it does to his behavior."

It amazes me...they were desperate parents. And they’ve witnessed and enjoyed first-hand, this massive transformation and wakening of their child---and part of it was removing gluten....

And they still think a little bit is okay.

Boggles my mind. It tells me that I have a lot of education I still need to be doing for these people. I still need to be letting them know that this is not acceptable.

So I guess I can add that to another group, the other groups that don’t get it, some doctors – in fact a lot of doctors. I’ve told you about that post a long time ago, about how this doctor got up at this continuing education seminar and basically said that, you know, “our products only have a little bit of gluten in them and it’s not enough to make a difference,” and how that was just total crap.

And then I told you about how there was another group of people, particularly daycares, that just don’t get it because my own child was in a daycare, and they just don’t get it. I mean, they literally have no idea what it means to be intolerant to gluten.

Now I have another group of people, which I never thought I would would make the list.

I never thought I would say that a parent of a child who has been diagnosed with Asperger’s, right, on the autistic spectrum, who removed gluten from their diet along with the rest of our program. They saw massive, positive changes and are still seeing them today...they still don’t get it.

THE PLACE FOR ANSWERS™Dr. David ClarkFunctional NeurologistDiplomate College of Clinical NutritionFunctional EndocrinologistBoard Certified Chiropractic NeurologistVestibular Rehab Specialist214-341-3737

March 09, 2011

Dr. David Clark, DC Director of The Place for Answers™shares the exciting story of how Functional Neurology and Functional Medicine saved a woman from suicidal depression.

Depressed Woman Saved From Suicide

I’m excited today to share with you someone who was at the brink of suicide--- but who is now climbing out of the depths of depression thanks to the work that we’ve been able to do with her.

Her name is Karen (not her real name.) And when I first saw her a few months ago, she was in the deepest, darkest depression I’ve seen in 10 years. She was extremely depressed, and according to Karen, this had been her "normal" for over 20 years.

She was having a really hard time getting out of bed...was extremely unmotivated--as you would be if you were suffering major depression. She didn’t have a bipolar type of depression.

She was always low and would somtimes move back up to her baseline (which was low anyway), and then sink down to dark, dark moods for weeks on end.

I’m thrilled to say that she’s not having those dark times anymore. Our metabolic and brain-based approach for her type of problem has generated some fantastic rewards for her.

I’m not gonna steal her thunder. She does a much better job than I do of sharing her story...

Karen: Well, it’s like getting further out of the depression as things are smoothing out. It’s also coming out of the deep darks...So I’m not as negative I guess would be a good word.

Dr. Clark: Excellent.

Karen: I’m not as negative feeling or as reactive to things.

Dr. Clark: Okay.

Karen: I’m doing art again.

Dr. Clark: That’s a better thing, too, right?

Karen: Yeah, that’s a whole lot of better thing. When you don’t feel like drawing and producing stuff, then that’s pretty bad for an artist.

Dr. Clark: You said – you don’t have to mention her name, but you said someone had made a comment about something you were wearing, and then you had what kind of a response to it?

Karen: For a few minutes there really heavy, dark anger but it went away. It was like I want nothing to do with this.

[Laughter]Dr. Clark: So rather than descending down into a …

Karen: Yeah, I didn’t spiral down. Most often I would get angry and I would just kind of – it was like the anger was still there, but it was like it would trigger darker, darker, darker feelings until I was just buried.

Dr. Clark: Right, okay.

Karen: But now it’s like, okay, she was being super rude. Just forget that.

Dr. Clark: Right and you move on. Excellent.

Karen: I move on is right.

Dr. Clark: So overall if you had to say percentage-wise how much better you feel or how much improvement you think you’ve had since we first saw you …

Karen: The very beginning?

Dr. Clark: Yeah, what would you say?

Karen: Wow, about 500 percent.

[Laughter]Dr. Clark: About 500 percent? I’m gonna show the camera because we were not here. We were like way down here, so 500 percent puts us back …

Karen: No, we were down here. [points to floor]

[Laughter] Dr. Clark: We were down there, okay.

Karen: I was one-half second from suicide. That’s how close I was.

Dr. Clark: I don’t like to hear that, but I’m glad you’re not there anymore…

THE PLACE FOR ANSWERS™Dr. David ClarkFunctional NeurologistDiplomate College of Clinical NutritionFunctional EndocrinologistBoard Certified Chiropractic NeurologistVestibular Rehab Specialist214-341-3737